Tag: SysAdmin
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How To Keep Up: Just In Time Learning
From Coding Horror Do you ever feel like you’re buried under umpteen zillion backlogged emails, feeds, books, articles, journals, magazines, and printouts? Do you ever feel that you’re hopelessly behind, with so much new stuff created every day that you can never possibly hope to keep up? Well, you’re not alone. Via SecretGeek: You do…
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SetUp Your Own Private Cloud Storage Service with OwnCloud
Currently in the shop I decided that although I use Box, SkyDrive, Dropbox, Ubuntu One, and Amazon, I need a bit more storage and my own control. So I have setup OwnCloud. For an overview of OwnCloud look at this article on Lifehacker. Review OwnCloud’s list of features. I am using Fedora 18 which is…
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Quick and Simple Configuration of Samba for Fedora 18
I have a Fedora 18 system here with the hostname snape.greshamhs.org and the IP address 192.168.92.249. I always make sure that SELinux is disabled: Edit /etc/selinux/config and set SELINUX=disabled: vi /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing – SELinux…
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Configuring NFS Server on Fedora 18
I find that I often need to remember the steps to configuring NFSv4 on Fedora. Note that under Fedora 18, nfs-utils may already installed depending on the options you select. [root@master ~]# yum -y install nfs-utils [root@master ~]# vi /etc/idmapd.conf # line 5: uncomment and change to your domain name Domain = server.world [root@master ~]#…
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Changing Boot Sequence in Grub2
I just loaded Fedora 16. I have this odd Dell Inspiron with a WinTV Express Card, the only card ever built for this slot. To simplify my life I run Windows 7 for TV and Linux for everything else. Where was I? How to alter the boot sequence in grub2 # cat /boot/grub2/grub.cfg |grep Windows…